90 Days To Start A New Life: For Refugees In The U.S., What Happens Next?
To help make refugees feel at home, one woman in Charlottesville created an organization where volunteers become neighbors and, ultimately, friends.
Our series Take A Number is exploring problems around the world — and the people who are trying to solve them — through the lens of a single number.
Here's a number: 90. That's how many days most refugees arriving in this country have before the basic resettlement money they get from the government runs out.
But once that three months is over, there are still so many things recent arrivals need. That's what Kari Miller saw over and over as a teacher in the public schools in Charlottesville, Va.
In her classes, students who had recently arrived in the U.S. as refugees were struggling with all kinds of problems, like serious dental issues, or a lack of winter clothes or just the challenge of adjusting to
